Bridle-blind.



F. T. MOORE. BRIDLE BLIND. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 16. 1908.

Patented June 1, 1909.

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FREDERICK T. MOORE, OF GEYSERVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 16, 1908.

Patented .Tune l, 1909.

Serial No. 443,822.

To all 'whom fit may concern.'

Be it known t iat I, FREDERICK T. Moonn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Geyserville, in the lcounty of Sonoma and State of Oalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bridle- Blinds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to blinds for bridles, and has for its object to provide certain imn movements over the construction disclosed in Letters Patent No. 887,838, granted to me May 12th, 1908, as will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved construction shown attached to a bridle in position on a horses head. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail plan view of the blinds, one of the same being shown in section. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective view of one of the springs. Fig. 1 is a view similar to Fig. 2, illustrating a modified construction.

In the said dra fing, referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the reference numeral 1 denotes the usual side strap ofthe bridle, and 2 the throat latch thereof. Fixed said side strap in the usual manner are my improved blinds 3, the same being preferably formed of a plurality of layers of l'eatl'ier, and preferably having located between the outer and inner layers thereof the springs having their ends e* extending for a distance in opposite directions between said layers, and their centra coiled portions 5 projecting through apertures in the inner layers of said blinds, all as described in my Letters Patent hereinbefere referred to, whereby said blinds will be normally maintained in their open position. Connecting the outer ends of said blinds at their upper and lower ends are two springs having their body portions 6 lying normally parallel and coiled at their centers at 7 to maintain this position, tie ends 8 of said springs being bent to lie within the layers of the blinds at their outer vertical ends. At tached to the upper and lower outer ends of said blinds are the straps 9 and 10, that are crossed across the face of the horse, and passed through eyelets 11 fixed to the side straps 1, said straps being connected at 12 to a common strap 13, that in turn is attached to a rein 14 leading back to within l reach of the driver.

In use the spring ends el and the body portions t3 will normally maintain the blinds in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, but when the rein 14 is pulled, the straps 9, 1() and 13 will be drawn backward, thereby folding the outer ends of the blinds toward each other, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and causing the same to completely cover the eyes of the animal, the body portions 6 of the springs bowing outward, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

lWhile I prefer to employ the spring arms 4 in the blinds 1, the same may be dispensed with, as the other springs alone will serve to normally maintain the blinds in their open position.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated a modified oonstruction wherein are employed upper and lower rigid cross-bars 15, oonneeting the blinds 1 at their bending points, said bars being coiled at each end at 1G and having their outer ends 17 lying horizontally within the layers of the blinds and extending outwardly therein. lith this construction when the rein 14 is pulled the outer ends of the blinds 1 are folded against the tension of coils 16, while the body portions of said blinds are firmly maintained in their normal position by the Cross-bars 15, thereby preventing side pressure on the eyes of the animal. In this construction the horizontal spring ends l may or may not be employed, as desired.

`laving thus described my invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, what I claim as new is:

1. The Combination with a bridle, and a pair of blinds lconnected thereto, of spring arms connecting said blinds and supported solely thereby and adapted to maintain said blinds in a flat position but adapted to yield under a pull to permit said blinds to fold.

2. rlhe combination with a bridle, and a pair of blinds connected thereto, of spring arms connecting said blinds at their outer ends and supported solely thereby, adapted to normally maintain said blinds in their open position, and adapted to bow centrally under a pull on said blinds to permit the latter to fold.

3. The combination with a bridle and a under a pull on said blinds to permit the .3 pair of flexible blinds connected thereto, of a latter to fold. spring arm embodying body portions nor- In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature, inally 1piainained in subsltantial parallel relain presence of two witnesses. tiont rougi an interme iates ring ortion, w and bent ends engaging the outr endg of said FREDERICK T MOORE' blinds to normally maintain the latter in Witnesses: their open position, said spring arm adapted D. L. VVINDER, t0 bow at its intermediate spring portion R. A. PETRAY. 

